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Riverdale, NY : Baen Books, 2008.
Description
Sending a spaceship to rendezvous with an enormous vessel made up of a series of globular habitats approaching its star system, the aliens find a savage race calling themselves "humans" who promptly slaughter the exploration team, except for a single survivor who escapes to another habitat, where he finds more friendly humans whose help he requires to get back to his own ship.
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A slower-than-light colony ship consisting of individual habitats has been travelling outward from Earth for centuries. Each habitat holds a different group of extremists and outcasts: militants, danger-seekers, matriarchs, religious zealots, the last remnants of a primitive tribe. The groups have
Space adventure at its finest.
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no contact with one another; some have even forgotten that there is an outside universe. When an aliens see the approaching ship and send out a team of explorers, things go very wrong. Now the expedition survivors must rely on these strange beings called 'humans' to help them pass through one strange society after another to return to their ship.Space adventure at its finest.
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Original publication date
2008
ISBN
9781416555858
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